Peace kchughtai
I disagree ... Please see brother Jafri's post ... A Rasool has to be a Nabi, but not all Nabi's are Rasool.
How did you conclude that?
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Peace and Blessings of Allah (SWT) be on them all.
Nabi means annointed or chosen
Rasool comes from R-S-L essentially utterance of a message given to him - more pragmatically the portrayer of God's Word.
It is obvious from the meanings of these two that the Rasool hence is chosen, but not every chosen one is necessarily fulfilling the fucntion of "Uttering God's Word"
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would you please elaborate 'uttering' God's word?
Do you think that prophets don't 'utter' God's word and remain mute inspite of being chosen ones?
Another question: Do both messengers and prophets get revelations from Allah?
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Note: that Nabi is a title, or a passive state ... and Rasool is a function or an active state.
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please explain the above statement.
I think what you guys are trying to tell is that there are two types of Allah's appointed ones
1) Who bring a new message/law from Allah. In other words, they are law givers
2) Those who come to follow the existing scripture and explain it to others and make judgments based on the existing scripture